A money manager invested in iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF Fund (Ticker: IWM). The
current value of her portfolio is $1 million. Today, she decided to use option contracts to
hedge the stock portfolio against a decline in market value in next one month.

a. What type of option (call or put) contract she should choose to hedge her portfolio?
b. Should she take a long or short (buy or sell) position?
c. How many option contracts will be needed to hedge the portfolio?
d. If she wants to protect your portfolio value from dropping more than 5%. Which option
contract will you choose? What is the max and min gain/loss from this strategy?

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To hedge the stock portfolio against a decline in market value the money manager should choose a put ... View the full answer